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Removing soft and self shadows that lack clear boundaries from a single image is still challenging. Self shadows are shadows that are cast on the object itself. Most existing methods rely on binary shadow masks, without considering the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yeying Jin , Wei Ye , Wenhan Yang , Yuan Yuan , Robby T. Tan

Recent advancements in deep learning have yielded promising results for the image shadow removal task. However, most existing methods rely on binary pre-generated shadow masks. The binary nature of such masks could potentially lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xinrui Wang , Lanqing Guo , Xiyu Wang , Siyu Huang , Bihan Wen

Shadows often occur when we capture the documents with casual equipment, which influences the visual quality and readability of the digital copies. Different from the algorithms for natural shadow removal, the algorithms in document shadow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zinuo Li , Xuhang Chen , Chi-Man Pun , Xiaodong Cun

Shadows can originate from occlusions in both direct and indirect illumination. Although most current shadow removal research focuses on shadows caused by direct illumination, shadows from indirect illumination are often just as pervasive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jiamin Xu , Zelong Li , Yuxin Zheng , Chenyu Huang , Renshu Gu , Weiwei Xu , Gang Xu

Facial landmark detection is a very fundamental and significant vision task with many important applications. In practice, facial landmark detection can be affected by a lot of natural degradations. One of the most common and important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Lan Fu , Qing Guo , Felix Juefei-Xu , Hongkai Yu , Wei Feng , Yang Liu , Song Wang

Shadow removal is to restore shadow regions to their shadow-free counterparts while leaving non-shadow regions unchanged. State-of-the-art shadow removal methods train deep neural networks on collected shadow & shadow-free image pairs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Xiaoguang Li , Qing Guo , Pingping Cai , Wei Feng , Ivor Tsang , Song Wang

Predicting accurate normal maps of objects from two-dimensional images in regions of complex structure and spatial material variations is challenging using photometric stereo methods due to the influence of surface reflection properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kai Luo , Yakun Ju , Lin Qi , Kaixuan Wang , Junyu Dong

Shadows are a common factor degrading image quality. Single-image shadow removal (SR), particularly under challenging indirect illumination, is hampered by non-uniform content degradation and inherent ambiguity. Consequently, traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yu-Fan Lin , Chia-Ming Lee , Chih-Chung Hsu

We introduce a high-fidelity portrait shadow removal model that can effectively enhance the image of a portrait by predicting its appearance under disturbing shadows and highlights. Portrait shadow removal is a highly ill-posed problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jae Shin Yoon , Zhixin Shu , Mengwei Ren , Xuaner Zhang , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Krishna Kumar Singh , He Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been consistently proved state-of-the-art results in image Super-Resolution (SR), representing an exceptional opportunity for the remote sensing field to extract further information and knowledge…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Francesco Salvetti , Vittorio Mazzia , Aleem Khaliq , Marcello Chiaberge

Shadow detection is a fundamental and challenging task, since it requires an understanding of global image semantics and there are various backgrounds around shadows. This paper presents a novel network for shadow detection by analyzing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xiaowei Hu , Lei Zhu , Chi-Wing Fu , Jing Qin , Pheng-Ann Heng

We present a diffusion-based portrait shadow removal approach that can robustly produce high-fidelity results. Unlike previous methods, we cast shadow removal as diffusion-based inpainting. To this end, we first train a shadow-independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wanchang Yu , Qing Zhang , Rongjia Zheng , Wei-Shi Zheng

Shadow removal aims to restore the image content in shadowed regions. While deep learning-based methods have shown promising results, they still face key challenges: 1) uncontrolled removal of all shadows, or 2) controllable removal but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kerui Chen , Zhiliang Wu , Wenjin Hou , Kun Li , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

Traditional shadow removal networks often treat image restoration as an unconstrained mapping, lacking the physical interpretability required to balance localized texture recovery with global illumination consistency. To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Pan Wang , Yihao Hu , Xiujin Liu , Hang Wang

Shadows are common aspect of images and when left undetected can hinder scene understanding and visual processing. We propose a simple yet effective approach based on reflectance to detect shadows from single image. An image is first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Sri Kalyan Yarlagadda , Fengqing Zhu

This paper presents a survey and a comparative evaluation of recent techniques for moving cast shadow detection. We identify shadow removal as a critical step for improving object detection and tracking. The survey covers methods published…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-05 Andres Sanin , Conrad Sanderson , Brian C. Lovell

Segment anything model (SAM) has shown its spectacular performance in segmenting universal objects, especially when elaborate prompts are provided. However, the drawback of SAM is twofold. On the first hand, it fails to segment specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Leiping Jie , Hui Zhang

The requirement for paired shadow and shadow-free images limits the size and diversity of shadow removal datasets and hinders the possibility of training large-scale, robust shadow removal algorithms. We propose a shadow removal method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Hieu Le , Dimitris Samaras

Recent advances in object-centric representation learning have shown that slot attention-based methods can effectively decompose visual scenes into object slot representations without supervision. However, existing approaches typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Huankun Sheng , Ming Li , Yixiang Wei , Yeying Fan , Yu-Hui Wen , Tieliang Gong , Yong-Jin Liu

Differentiable rendering has received increasing interest for image-based inverse problems. It can benefit traditional optimization-based solutions to inverse problems, but also allows for self-supervision of learning-based approaches for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Linjie Lyu , Marc Habermann , Lingjie Liu , Mallikarjun B R , Ayush Tewari , Christian Theobalt